equipment

[hockeyman]

hi
i was wondering how many 80 tanks a single diver is able to hold while wreck diving and also the other equipment you will need

thanks

 

[Thalassamania]

hi
i was wondering how many 80 tanks a single diver is able to hold while wreck diving and also the other equipment you will need

thanks

If this is just a theoretical question I'd say five, triples with two slung, but why? If you need more gas get bigger tanks, triple 80s hold less gas than double 130s.

 

[in_cavediver]

hi
i was wondering how many 80 tanks a single diver is able to hold while wreck diving and also the other equipment you will need

thanks

I wish I could dredge up some of the WKPP photos of 'tank haulers' staging/pulling bottles. If I recall, in one photo a dive had a set of dbl 104's or 121's + 5-10 80's.

 

[Meng_Tze]

You can haul as many as you can swim/pull with a scooter. Especially when staging tanks for later dives ( a set up dive), it saves you a number of trips.

But for gas usage for a dive, i.e. you are going to use the gas on the dive at hand and need to carry it all (possibly staging) I think the practical limit would be 4-5 tanks. More than that would be too cumbersome (management), too much drag. 5 tanks I would not swim but scooter only. For me 3 tanks (2*80's and a 40) is the max I am willing to swim.... and even then, not that far......Going down a line to a wreck and leave them is fine... swimming upstream in a cave is another story: 'it sucks the air out of you'

Better to stage/use set up dives for dives requiring more gas..... maybe switch to RB's

 

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